how many mbf in a cord of wood?? (oak)

[Gary_C]

Hey, thanks for all the great replies: I think I'm getting it but stop me if I'm wrong- trees are round, boards are flat... or am I getting close yet?

Lj

Pie are round and cornbread are square.  Hah! food for thought. :D

These two quotes point out the flaw in your thinking. Boards are not composites of all the solid material in a cord. The part that goes missing is variable and depends on the diameter of the rounds turned into squares.

[NWP]

When scaling a log, the board feet figure only takes into account the wood that will make lumber and not the waste. When cutting and splitting a cord of wood, all of the log is used(bark,slabs). I've produced a cord of wood from 12" logs Doyle scaled at a little over 300. The bigger the diameter, the more board feet it takes to make a cord because there isn't as much waste.